Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1887-07-08
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General Farm Notes.


General Farm Notes.
Dairy butter will always sell higher
than that made at The. creameries,.
provided it be 81 first quality Cream,
cry butter IS usually more unit rm,.
but as dairy butter Isl made by thou
sands OF different per sons is not
easy to secure large quantities Of the
same grade.
The Putney Messenger says GEN.
Peck, q,larterr,1aster general, has q
new way Of treating a corn crop. The
land was plowed IN the fall, and the
Z corn planted early. As soon as the
corn shows above ground the field is
thoroughly narrowed, then rolled, and
the work stops. It Is said that where
this method has been tried q good
crop has always resulted, the corn
maturing much earlier than if culti-
waited. ~ !. II. III .s#.5s IA ].
Fowls that sa2e expected TO lay eggs
will need liberal feeding. Eggs con-
tain q large quantity OF nitrogen
phosrhoric acid, sulpher, and lime,
and these should be supplied in the
food. Green turnip tops, G! over, juicy
cabbage, bran, wheat mid dlings, and
cornmeal should all be given with
some broken fresh bones. These foods
will supply an abund ance of the ma
terial needed. About four ounces OF
the grain food will be required daily
at this season and about one ounce
Of bone broken into small pieces. -"
The women Of this country, says a
writer in the Western Rural, are be-
coming q greater factor OF strength,
and when fully inaugurated in the
science OF butter making, the creamer-
les will have to go slow, behave cour-
teously and act honestly, or women
butter makers will topple them from
assume the responsibility OF the bust
ness altogether. We do not condemn
creameries for selling their butter at a
fair price, but if they expect to -four
:sh, they must give country butter
makers a fair shower 90 under.
There are many ways OF preserving
Strawberries. One is to prepare a
syrup OF white sugar with little wa
ter and boil it for Is minutes, skim
ming it often. Then pick and clean
the berries and turn them into the
pan and boil slowly 20 minutes. An
other is to make the syrup and pour
it over the berries packed in a glass
jar, and keep the jar III the bright sun
shine in a warm place for two weeks.
Another is to make the syrup and
pour it over the berries in side dish
cover with piece OF glass and expose
to the hot sun for q few days; then
put in glass jars and seal I'D in the
usual way. Honey or the best golden
drips may be used instead of sugar syr-
| up.
Our farmers are fairly waking up to
the Importance OF timber planting,
says Waldo F. Brown, and I think
| more farmers IN my township have
set out more forest trees this spring
than all that have been set before put
together. A few have planted plats
| for the last six or eight years, and as
the farmers have had an opportunity
to observe their growth, and have
seen how rapidly they become valu-
able, they are stimulated to plant,
! and I think that tree planting will in.
crease from year to year. Most OF
the trees planted are black locust,
but some catalpas and NAPLES have
been set, and all are giving satisfac-
ton. ri
1t would be a good plan for farmers
to open a regular account with the
farm, IN which they could credit it
with all they use in the family. Some
things would, perhaps, need to be esti.
mated, but Others could be charged
exactly For example. if q beef is
killed, credit it at the regular price at
which cattle are selling; when you
butcher hogs for homeuse credit them
at what they would bring in the mar
ket. BY weighing butter you can
soon find out the average used per
week. When you get grist OF wheat
ground. credit the farm with the flour.
Make an estimate once week or
month Of the fruit, vegetab les, eggs
and poultry used, and if at the end 81
the year you do not find that the farm
has contributed enough to make o
fair per cent. on its taxable value, it
will be because you have not mad
much OF family to support, or else
you have not lived up to your privil-
eges and made the farm as varied in
it's productions as you ought. W. F..
Brown in Country Gentleman. -